Lesson One: The Importance of Reading
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If you want to write – read. Marinate your mind in the sentence and the word. With Susan Sontag on the book-drunken life; Ralph Ellison on the jazzy genius of TS Eliot; and Eudora Welty, whose mother bartered her hair for a barrel of books.
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